NPR Topics: News | Alex Murdaugh will get a new murder trial. Here's a timeline of his case by Bill Chappell

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Three years after Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul, the South Carolina Supreme Court granted him a new trial, ruling that former clerk Becky Hill’s alleged jury‑tampering “egregiously attacked” his credibility and created a presumption of prejudice. Murdaugh, already serving two consecutive life sentences for the slayings, is also serving a 27‑year state term and a 40‑year federal term for siphoning millions from clients and for wire‑bank fraud and money‑laundering. The article traces the saga from the 2018 death of the family’s housekeeper, the 2019 fatal boating accident involving his son, the June 2021 double murder at the family estate, Murdaugh’s staged “self‑shot” later that month, his subsequent arrests, disbarment, multiple fraud indictments, the 2023 trial in which he admitted lying about his alibi, and the ongoing legal battles over whether Hill’s comments to jurors tainted the verdict, prompting his attorneys to argue a Sixth‑Amendment violation before the state’s highest court.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5719271/alex-murdaugh-murder-timeline-trial

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Judge May Reconsider Dismissing Maduro’s Case Due to US Blocking His Legal Funds

https://murica.website/2026/03/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/03/03/immigration-law-attorney-okc-ice-detainees-struggle-contact-lawyers-watonga-ok/88830217007/

This story is deeply disturbing. It is absolutely inexcusable and unconstitutional to deny incarcerated people access to their attorneys for more than 2 months.

P..S. The phone system work-around is NOT suffixient, because calls made to attorneys in this way are being recorded, which violates attorney-client privilege.

This story is archived here: https://archive.ph/5liLS

#SixthAmendment #RightToCounsel #ConstittuionalLaw #Oklahoma #Watonga #PrivatePrisons #Ice #Immigration

Judge #BerylHowell struck down in its entirety #Trump's punitive #ExecutiveOrder targeting #LawFirm #PerkinsCoie as a violation of the US #Constitution's protections for #FreeSpeech & #DueProcess.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.184.0.pdf

#law #SummaryJudgment #Injunction #FirstAmendment #FifthAmendment #SixthAmendment #RevengePolitics

>>The right to a criminal defense lawyer is so ingrained in the American idea of justice that fans of TV police dramas can recite these two lines from the Miranda rights by memory: You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.

But in much of Texas, that right is routinely denied. Every year, more than half of rural Texans accused of misdemeanors are left to represent themselves ... <<

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/texas-criminal-defense-attorney.html

#Texas #CriminalJustice #SixthAmendment #USConstitution

Trump pulls BOMBSHELL stunt, shocks the WORLD

https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/trump-pulls-bombshell-stunt-shocks-the-world

https://reason.com/2024/06/21/the-supreme-court-again-strengthens-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-in-criminal-sentencing/
"The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the right to a trial by jury and to due process apply to people who face a steep sentencing enhancement under federal law, in a ruling that transfers some power from the hands of judges to the public and will affect many criminal defendants' future punishments."

""Prominent among the reasons colonists cited in the Declaration of Independence for their break with Great Britain was the fact Parliament and the Crown had 'depriv[ed] [them] in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury,'" he writes. "The Fifth and Sixth Amendments placed the jury at the heart of our criminal justice system" in order "to mitigate the risk of prosecutorial overreach and misconduct" and serve as a check on the government."
#FifthAmendment #SixthAmendment #HumanRights